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When I featured the Fujica Compact this time, I also introduced the Compact S and Compact D. I mentioned that since both the S and D I own are in perfect working condition, I wouldn’t be modifying them. However, to my (perhaps happy?) surprise, the D turned out to have a faulty shutter. So, I immediately took out the lens. Since it’s equipped with a large-aperture Fujinon 45mm f/1.8, I just couldn’t resist getting my hands on it.
Fujica’s rangefinder/leafshutter cameras with large-aperture lenses include the following:
Fujica 35 SE ... Fujinon 45mm f/1.9
Fujica 35 EE ... Fujinon 45mm f/1.9
Fujica 35 VⅡ ... Fujinon 45mm f/1.8
And now, this one:
Fujica Compact D ... Fujinon 45mm f/1.8
All of these lenses are truly outstanding performers — that’s Fujinon for you!!!
Fujica Compact Deluxe
casualphotophile.com/2020/01/22/fujica-compact-deluxe-rev...
Car: BMW 316i Compact.
Date of first registration: 17th March 1999.
Region of registration: Swansea.
Latest recorded mileage: 13,578 (MOT 28th March 2019).
Date taken: 16th August 2019.
Album: Street Spots
Car: BMW 316 Compact (E36/5)
Date of first registration: 6th March 1995.
Registration region: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
Latest recorded mileage: 61,125 (MOT 9th November 2018).
Date taken: 19th March 2019.
Album: Street Spots
What might look like an abstract artwork is actually a novel antenna, small enough for a minisatellite, to track global ship traffic from orbit.
Commercial vessels are mandated to transmit Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals, which are used to track maritime traffic – the oceangoing equivalent of air traffic control. The system relies on VHF radio signals with a horizontal range of just 40 nautical miles (74 km), useful within coastal zones and on a ship-to-ship basis, but leaving open ocean traffic largely uncovered.
However, in 2010 ESA fitted an experimental antenna to Europe’s Columbus module of the International Space Station, demonstrating for the first time that AIS signals could also be detected from up in orbit, opening up the prospect of global ship tracking from space.
“Based on our testing, this new prototype designs offers a four-fold increase in ship detection performance,” explains ESA antenna specialist Nelson Fonseca, overseeing the project.
“The AIS detection system on Columbus employs a low-gain ‘whip’ antenna, receiving signals within a very broad beam, with corresponding potential for signal overlap and interference.
“This antenna design combines higher-gain with a more reduced footprint, allowing more of a focus on regions of highest interest, and can also discriminate between polarisations, increasing the likelihood of detection for any individual AIS signal within the antenna field of view.”
In addition, clever engineering has shrunk the overall antenna size to a size where up to five could be hosted on a single cubic-metre minisatellite.
“Despite its name, VHF is quite a low wavelength in space terms, implying a bulky antenna of about 1 m across and half-a-metre thick to operate ideally at that frequency,” Nelson adds.
“But the patterned square-shaped structure on the underlying face of our antenna changes the signal behaviour, enabling us to shrink the design to 50 cm width and 3 cm thickness – making it suitable for hosting on a smaller platform.”
The antenna was developed through ESA’s ARTES Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems – Advanced Technology programme with Italian companies CGS as prime contractor and MVG as subcontractor in charge of the electrical design.
“CGS and MVG are highly interested in moving forward with the optimisation and environmental qualification of this outstanding antenna element,” explains Andrea Di Cintio, managing the project at CGS. “The next step will be to identify a specific mission and then optimise the design and qualification accordingly.”
“Significant reduction of antenna dimensions and weight without compromising electrical performance was challenging,” adds Andrea Giacomini, lead antenna designer at MVG. “It required a radical change in the design and validation approach. We are proud to have been involved.”
Credit: ESA–G. Porter, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
1998 BMW 316i Compact.
Previously registered G2 OTL.
Subsequently re-registered S255 SBJ in June 2025.
Last (extended) MoT test expired in November 2020 (SORN).
No previous keepers.
Car: BMW 316i Compact.
Year of manufacture: 1999.
Date of first registration in the UK: 20th May 1999.
Place of registration: Chelmsford.
Date of last MOT: 7th April 2021.
Mileage at last MOT: 100,621.
Last change of keeper: 9th August 2020
Date taken: 3rd June 2021.
Album: Carspotting 2021
A very basic Compact. Top spotting points if you see one of these now.
Plate comes back to a Piaggio T5 (a scooter?)
This 1 3/8 inch figure is the DC Comics character The Flash as seen in the game HeroClix. The red and yellow streaks behind him are actually tissue paper.
I believe this is the first toy photo I've posted to Flickr that was lit by my camera's flash. I typically use lamps, flashlights, LEDs, etc.
This image is straight out of the camera: no tweaking, no color processing, no cropping, no nothing.
Submitted to the Flickr group 7 Days of Shooting.
The best words to describe HK's cityscape.
Recently fall in love with the skyscrapers and cityscape, I spent few weekends on wandering around Central to Wan Chai. Look up and look for sth fun!! :)
I will be using this camera in week 325 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
www.flickr.com/photos/tony_kemplen/collections/72157623113584240
An unusual sight in South Wales was a clean class 37, however 37234 is almost ex works and therefore has not yet been covered in grime and coal dust from the valley pits, 24th August 1975.
Locomotive History
37234 was released from the English Electric Vulcan Foundry, as D6934 on the 10th April 1964 and allocated to Landore MPD. It remained a South Wales engine for over twenty two years until transferred to Thornaby in November 1986. It was refurbished in March 1987 and renumbered 37685, being allocated to Tinsley on release from Crewe works for freight duties. This was followed by transfers to Thornaby and Immingham until stored in March 1993 unserviceable. 37685 was reinstated in June 1993 and transferred to Inverness for sleeper train passenger duties from Inverness/Aberdeen – Edinburgh, which it undertook until April 1995 when it was back to freight duties based on Motherwell, Immingham and Toton until stored again in June 1999. Reinstated again in September 1999 for infrastructure duties in France it spent almost a year out of the country before returning in August 2000. Since returning from France 37685 was predominately in store with brief periods of activity in the leaf fall season. Sold to the West Coast Railway Company in December 2007 it has been overhauled and reinstated to traffic in May 2010 for charter train duties.
Hanimex Compact, Orwochrome UT18
Re-scanned and re-edited 31st March 2019
The MRK III Compact was
an attempt by manufacturers Slayn & Korpil to build on the success of the earlier MRK I (and to a lesser extend the MRK II), retaining the heavy armament of the original while improving manoeuvrability and reducing maintenance.
The ship retained the originals ion and laser canons and featured a gunner turret capable of 360 degree rotation. As a compromise it required 2 crew; a pilot and a gunner.
Technological advances allowed the size of the s-foils to be significantly reduced, and the engine cluster to be minimised and positioned behind the crew pods.
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I initially wanted to have a few small cars that would fit into an autorack, similar to the Vert-A-Pac. The train car didn't work out, but the regular cars did. I will now use them for my LUG's city layout.
From where I sit at this moment, Orkney seems so remote. It's easy to forget that it sits just off John o' Groats and was a bit of Scotland nibbled away and submerged at the end of the Last Glacial Period. Prior to that, the lowered sea levels left Doggerland high and dry — a convenient stepping stone for humans to repopulate Britain from the rest of Europe. Yes, I've been to the very north of the archipelago, to North Ronaldsay. Today I'm away to South Ronaldsay — ironically juxtaposed at opposite ends from its northern namesake. This won't take me to Orkney's most southerly isle, Stroma, which to be honest has less water between it and Scotland that it has between itself and the rest of Orkney.
Here's a reminder of how compact these islands are. This is the northern tip of Glimps Holm looking back across Lamb Holm to Mainland. By now I've crossed two of the causeways constructed as navigation barriers in WWII. There are what appears to be military installations, there on the cliffs of Lamb Holm. In the middleground lie relics of the block ships sunk here early in WWI. I think this was the SS Numidian, an almost 5000 ton steel hulled steamer scuttled here on 30 December 1914. She was sunk in the company of SS Aorangi, SS Thames and SS Minieh with, I think, Numidian in the shallow water near this spot. I could be wrong. If you need a better answer there's a kind of trainspotters' guide to the wrecks of Scapa Flow.
Orkney is so user-friendly. It's a small place, compact, packed to the gunwales with history; so much that with sea level rise its, Plimsoll line is in peril of disappearing beneath the waves. Getting about is quick and easy; all that and it has a village named Twatt.
Fujica Compact 35
camera-wiki.org/wiki/Fujica_Compact_35
Fujica Light Compact 35 S
www.asahi-net.or.jp/~RD2H-ARI/FU_LIGHT_COM35S.htm(in Japanese)
camera-wiki.org/wiki/Fujica_Compact_S
Fujica Compact Deluxe
casualphotophile.com/2020/01/22/fujica-compact-deluxe-rev...
実はこのFuica Compact 35に興味を持ったのはここFlickrで検索して出てきたこのカメラでの作例フォトの素晴らしさを知ったことから始まりました。しかしながらこのCompact 35には幾つかのヴァージョンがあって、その中からレンジファイダー付きのCompact Sに興味が向き、既にフィルムによる写真をアップしてあります。このSの搭載レンズは38mm f2.5であって、こういう2.5という半端な数値のレンズに思いっきり惹かれた私であります。さてこのFujica Compactの最終兵器はFujinon 45mm f1.8付きのCompact D。コレには痺れますね！今現在手元にあるSとDは供にシャッターがちゃんと切れる完動品なので改造はまだしていません。今回、改造したのはオリジナルのCompact35。Fujinon 38mm f2,8付きのものです。このレンズは4群5枚とのこと…。しかしレンズ構成はクセノタール型ではなくテッサー型の一番全面に1枚メニスカスを置いた構成になっているようです。
Actually, my interest in the Fujica Compact 35 began when I discovered some stunning sample photos taken with this camera here on Flickr. However, there are several versions of the Compact 35, and among them, I became interested in the Compact S, which features a rangefinder. I’ve already uploaded some film photos taken with it.
The lens on the S is a 38mm f/2.5, and I was strongly drawn to that rather unusual f/2.5 aperture. Now, the ultimate version in the Fujica Compact series is the Compact D, equipped with a Fujinon 45mm f/1.8 lens — truly irresistible!
At the moment, both my S and D are fully functional with shutters working properly, so I haven’t modified them yet. The one I modified this time is the original Compact 35, which comes with a Fujinon 38mm f/2.8 lens. I’ve heard this lens has 4 groups and 5 elements, though its optical design seems to be not a Xenotar type, but rather a Tessar type with a single meniscus element placed at the very front.
If there’s one company in Australia with heaps of dino compactors, that company will be Suez, or SITA as I wish they were still known. Maybe in the past the company had more dino work on a national scale, but the high majority is now subject to their Sydney operations, with most of their bulk bin trucks indeed dino roll-offs. I’m sure the company has a good couple hundred open top containers, compactor containers and integrated units in Sydney, a lot of which appear to be young or freshened up. However, a few years ago I came across one of their older pieces of equipment outside their Wetherill Park transfer station, just sitting on the road unattended while its transporter was somewhere else. I love seeing a compactor just sitting on the road out from a dock, especially at night in the Sydney CBD haha It’s not often you would find a compactor of this capacity being used for garbage, so I think it’s safe to say this is a dry waste container or more likely one for paper and cardboard. You can tell this one is an oldie, with very faded paint and signage, plenty of scratches and a decent amount of rust. You can see the front of the container has been punched inwards... a result of the many times this steel box has been pushed into its resting position by the bail hook and frame. I reckon the “No Parking Day Or Night” signs should feature an additional “Offending Vehicles Will Be Towed” - not hard to do with the truck!
Instructions for my custom models for the Death Star Escape & Compactor are now ready. You can buy downloads on my website
Done for Arch's challenge #23: urban sniper.
"The UCS was designed for Frontline Security due to the request of a sniper rifle that could be used in urban combats. Its charging mechanism is an update of the XV factory: Every time the bolt goes back, the shell is moved with it and ejected from behind in the side of the weapon. Thanks to the modular parts, can be updated as a sniper or a assault rifle. Purchase today and regret never!"
Code: www.mediafire.com/?267xay1e38uxdus
Credit to Poke for the bullpup receiver and Doffe for the awesome rails.
Enjoy! and comment please!